Despite its engagement with the Taliban governance in Afghanistan, India mustn’t let its guard down, said former Afghanistan intelligence principal Rahmatullah Nabil, advising that Pakistani terror groups targeting India like Jaish e Mohammad and Lashkar e Toiba have shifted bases to Afghanistan with help from the Taliban, and have access to further technology and home.

Nabil said tht while engaging the Taliban was necessary for India in its “ own interests ”, New Delhi should keep channels open with former leaders as well, indeed though they’re now out of power.Mr. Nabil,

who served as the Director of the National Defence Secretariat( NDS) under both President Karzai and President Ghani, had nearly cooperated with India during his term( 2010- 2015), had famously abnegated overMr. Ghani’s visit to Pakistan, and decision to set up hotlines between security chiefs.

In an interview to The Hindu on the sidelines of a conference ofanti-Taliban Afghan leaders withU.S. andE.U. representatives,Mr. Nabil also said he’d been denied a visa by India after the Taliban preemption of Kabul in August 2021.

For us( officers of the former governance), we do n’t have any complaints against other countries, as we had no prospects, but we’ve a complaint with our musketeers.( After August 15( 2021), indeed those

who were musketeers of India, and those who had politic passports and visas,( were turned down), and visas were abandoned, ” he said, explaining that he dialedhis former interlocutors in New Delhi to request an entry for him, his mama and family to India after the collapse of the Ghani government.